Nicholas Zakas thinks he has the best way to load JavaScript. Steve Souders has a bunch of best practices, and it seems that there is definitely nuance that makes advice very much tailored to your circumstance. Nicholas though, has an opinion: I’ve come to the conclusion that there’s just one best practice for loading JavaScript Read the rest…

The doctor is in, and this time the specialist is Mark Boas who walks us through HTML5 Audio in various browsers and how to get audio working on the various implementations that are in the wild today. This early in the game especially, all implementations are not equal. For one there is the codec support: Read the rest…

Matt Thompson has created a fun little jQuery plugin called Chroma-Hash that “dynamically visualizes secure text-field values using ambient color bars”: Password entry can be frustrating, especially with long or difficult passwords. On a webpage, secure fields obscure your input with •’s, so others can’t read it. Unfortunately, neither can you—you can’t tell if you Read the rest…

Hi everybody, A quick reminder that $300 off The Ajax Experience conference expires this Friday, July 31. The Ajax Experience is September 14 – 16 in Boston, MA. www.AjaxExperience.com Be an early bird. Save $300 now! We hope to see you there! The Ajaxian.com team

As developers, it can be hard to get your voice heard in a company. Whilst our products depend on developers building them the right way, other people seem to call the shots about where they are going. This becomes disastrous when a company tries to reach developers with their product. Normal marketing and PR stunts Read the rest…

Over the past few weeks we’ve finalized over 40 key sessions across 7 tracks for The Ajax Experience conference, including Frameworks, User Experience, Standards and Cross-Browser Issues, High Performance and Scalability, Security, Architecture, JavaScript, and Cutting-Edge Ajax. The agenda-at-glance is ready for your review now. There’s something for everyone! Check it out The Ajax Experience is Read the rest…

Over in Geneva, they have posted on coupling PHP and Workers. They build on the great intro from John and tweak it to use simple PHP on the backend to do things such as making sure that your favourite library has been loaded into each Worker, so you can use it in your script. < Read the rest…

Ilia Draznin has been using CSS3 font face to fake font weights: The way @font-face works is that whatever font attributes you specify for a @font-face rule, they don’t determine how the font looks but rather when it’s gonna get used. For example if you have the following two rules < View plain text > Read the rest…

The Jetpack project is still a young ‘un from Mozilla Labs (disclaimer: I work for labs!) but they are moving swiftly indeed, and each new release has a wicked cool new API that let’s you do something you couldn’t easily do before. With the Jetpack 0.4 release we see two cool APIs: Audio Recording API Read the rest…

Christophe Eblé has kindly written a guest post on Swell JS and his drag and drop manager that works with your desktop. Here he tells us more: At Swell we were about to create a Drag & Drop Manager just like in other Javascript libraries such as Jquery, YUI, Mootools, Scriptaculous, but we were not Read the rest…

David Mandelin has generously detailed an overview of tracing and TraceMonkey in particular. He starts out by explaining the problem at hand: making a dynamic language such as JavaScript fast is hard. How do you get type info in dynamic type land? Our goal in TraceMonkey is to compile type-specialized code. To do that, TraceMonkey Read the rest…

Fancy a break? Take Mr. Speaker’s little JavaScript platformer for a spin. Have a great weekend, and a quick reminder: Think that we have missed a story? Please share news with us. Don’t assume that we missed it on purpose! Want to contribute a full story? Please! The crew hangs out on Twitter, and a Read the rest…

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